David Sheu, chairman and CEO of Taiwan-based equipment supplier Spirox, expects spending by Taiwan's semiconductor players for 2008 to fall, chiefly because of reduced investment from the DRAM sector. Sheu, who has just...

Applied Materials on December 4 held a forum in Taipei on the photovoltaic (PV) industry during which Digitimes had the opportunity to interview Mark Pinto, the company's senior vice president, chief technology officer...

Israel-based Tower Semiconductor recently opened a representative office in Taiwan to step up development of the Asia-Pacific market. Digitimes recently talked to Tower CEO Russell Ellwanger about his outlook for the company...

By strengthening ties with number-one handset vendor Nokia in 3G handset chip solutions in August 2007, STMicroelectronics raised eyebrows...

As the third-largest semiconductor equipment supplier after Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) and a leading player in the immersion lithography field, ASML has a clear direction for its future. The equipment...

President of the company's Asia operations since April, Larry Tan of Texas Instruments (TI) believes that a strong relationship with the customer is key for success. Citing a broad customer base and solid ties with customers,...

For International Semiconductor Technology (IST), a major Taiwan supplier of packaging and testing services for driver ICs, it is time to diversify to other segments. IST president Gray Huang thinks that packaging and testing...

Earlier this year, Terry Tsao was appointed president of SEMI Southeast Asia. Tsao is responsible for the association's programs, products and services in Singapore and Taiwan, as well as the organization's relationships...

With more than 7,000 of its semiconductor manufacturing systems shipped worldwide, SUSS MicroTec is not discouraged by the recent trimming of growth forecasts for the semiconductor industry by major research firms because...

When looking to divine the direction of the semiconductor industry, it makes sense to turn to SEMI, the global industry association serving companies that provide equipment, materials and services used to manufacture semiconductors...

Though the semiconductor industry is subject to cyclical ups and downs, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing finds it necessary to be well prepared, regardless of the near-term market outlook. According to Simon Yang,...

Silterra is relatively small in terms of business scale in comparison to well-known big names in the pure-play foundry business. But the Malaysia-based foundry has drawn attention these days from a series of management...

While seeing its stock price appreciate by three times over the past year on strong penetration in the handset solution market, Asia plays a vital role for Infineon Technologies, as evident from the fact that the region...

Solid state drives (SSD)s are poised to be a mainstream solid state memory technology with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in revenues of 71% from 2006 to 2011 as estimated by IDC. As one of the leading memory makers...

Within the global EDA (electronic design automation) industry, Berkeley Design Automation (BDA) is the new kid on the block, with the startup having been in existence for only four years. The company focuses on providing...

During Novellus Systems' recent investor conference, the leading plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system supplier suggested that the global semiconductor industry is set to see 2.8 million 12-inch wafer...

It is almost a year since Royal Philips Electronics transformed Philips Semiconductors into NXP Semiconductors. This "new" company,...

SanDisk not only serves as the world's largest vendor of flash-based memory cards, but also plays the role as a wafer maker, enabling the company to streamline all processes from upstream NAND flash chip manufacturing,...

During the first-quarter downturns for the foundry sector, China-based Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (GSMC) has been able to run at almost full capacity. In the words of GSMC executive VP Arthur Kuo, there...

Formerly a senior advisor to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and research director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at the University of California at Berkeley,...

Aixtron AG has specialized in MOCVD technology since 1983, but the Europe-based company is now brandishing its latest acquisition, the California-based Genus, which supplies both a CVD and ALD capability to complement Aixtron’s...

Switzerland-based u-blox AG, a global provider of GPS (global positioning system) chipsets and modules, has been actively seeking cooperation with Taiwanese hardware makers, especially hand-held device manufacturers, to...

Rebecca Tang became Mosel Vitelic's general manager towards the end of last year. DigiTimes recently had the opportunity to talk to her about the company's changes and plans.

According to market research, the semiconductor-IP business is growing, and one company enjoying that upside is CEVA, a leading licensor of DSP IP cores. In 2005, 130 million devices shipped with CEVA technology inside...

Earlier this summer, DigiTimes.com had the opportunity to talk about the SEMICON show with the general manager of Vistec Semiconductor Systems Division, Gerhard Ruppik, and Vistec Semiconductor Systems Corporation chairman,...